18 A FIRST LIST OF THE 



Hemicircus, Meiglyptes, Miilleripicus , Micropternus, Tiga, Mega- 

 lalma, Ololygon, Zanclostomus, Centrococcyx, Dicceum, Arach- 

 nothera, Graucalus, Artamus, Myiagra, Tchitrea {?), Bracky- 

 urus, Mixomis, Timalia, Criniger, Microtarsus, Orthotonus, 

 Zosterops, Crypsirina, Treron, Carpophaga, Chalcophaps. 



So if we were to judge by genera, we should assign a distinctly 

 preponderating Malayan character to the Avifauna, instead 

 of which a study of the species shows that it is essentially 

 Indian, the fact being that numbers of genera whose head- 

 quarters are further east have outlying species that, in the 

 present day at any rate, are essentially Indian in every sense of 

 the word. 



Again, we found, looking to species, that Indo-Burmese forms 

 greatly outnumbered those from Malayana and the East, but 

 only the following genera, eight in number, (and the first of these 

 doubtfully so,) can be characterized as Indo-Burmese, viz. : — 



Ketupa, Psarisomus, Serilophus, Gecinulus, Chalcoparia, Culi- 

 cipita, Arboricola, and Poclica. 



Lastly, we found that pure Burmese forms exceed both these 

 latter classes ; and yet we have only one single Burmese genus, 

 Anthocincla, to record, and that one pertaining properly to the 

 trans-Ssilween country, and only occurring, I believe, as a rare 

 straggler within our limits. 



There are doubtless Avifaunas in regard to which the study and 

 classification of the genera they comprise is most instructive, 

 but in the present ease it would not seem to help us much. 



As to the orders and tribes, it will be seen that the Raptores, 

 Fissirostres, and Scansores, especially the latter, are in great 

 force, being 12, 9, and 12 per cent respectively of the whole, as 

 against 8, 6" 5, and 7*6 of the Indian fauna proper, as given by 

 Dr. Jerdon. On the other hand, the Dentirostres are only 30, 

 against 40 per cent, in India, the Conirostres only 9 against 

 11*4, &c. But in the imperfect state of our knowledge as to the 

 real extent of the Ornis of the tract under consideration, no 

 safe conclusions can as yet be deduced from these differences. 



IV. 



The following is our list : — 



2.— Otogyps calvus, Scop. 



? 3 bis.— Gyps fulvescens, Hume. 



4.— Gyps indicus, Scop. 



Captain Feilden says : " Besides the birds that I sent you, I 

 observed three species of Vulture — the Black Vulture, the Tawny 

 Vulture, and the Common Brown one." Probably the three 

 species he refers to, are those given above ; both the first and the 

 last I have seen from Upper Pegu. 



